The 154th Open Championship will be held July 16-19 at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England.
Here’s a look at the full field and how each player qualified. Players are listed only in the first category for which they are eligible (a-amateur):
Past Open champions (aged 60 or under; players who did not enter the championship or WD’d are not listed)
- Brian Harman
- Cameron Smith
- Collin Morikawa
- Shane Lowry
- Francesco Molinari
- Jordan Spieth
- Henrik Stenson
- Rory McIlroy
- Darren Clarke
- Stewart Cink
- Padraig Harrington
- David Duval
Past Open champions (aged 55 or under, for all winners up to and including 2024)
- Scottie Scheffler
- Xander Schauffele
Top 10 and ties from the 2025 Open
- Harris English
- Chris Gotterup
- Haotong Li
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Wyndham Clark
- Robert MacIntyre
- Corey Conners
- Russell Henley
- Bryson DeChambeau
Top 50 from the OWGR for the week of May 24
- Cameron Young
- Justin Rose
- Tommy Fleetwood
- J.J. Spaun
- Jon Rahm
- Ludvig Åberg
- Aaron Rai
- Justin Thomas
- Ben Griffin
- Sepp Straka
- Si Woo Kim
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Alex Noren
- Patrick Reed
- Jacob Bridgeman
- Kristoffer Reitan
- Akshay Bhatia
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Nicolai Hojgaard
- Kurt Kitayama
- Min Woo Lee
- Viktor Hovland
- Patrick Cantlay
- Maverick McNealy
- Keegan Bradley
- Sam Burns
- Ryan Gerard
- Rickie Fowler
- Jake Knapp
- Alex Smalley
- Jason Day
- Daniel Berger
- Gary Woodland
- Michael Kim
- Matt McCarty
- Adam Scott
Top 25 players in final 2025 Race to Dubai Rankings
- Laurie Canter
- Adrien Saddier
- John Parry
- Keita Nakajima
- Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
- Jordan Smith
- Daniel Brown
- Daniel Hillier
- Martin Couvra
- Angel Ayora
- Joakim Lagergren
- Rasmus Hojgaard
BMW PGA Championship winners (3 years)
- Billy Horschel
- Ryan Fox
First five among top 20 in RTD rankings after BMW International Open (July 5)
- Hennie Du Plessis
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Jayden Schaper
- Andy Sullivan
- Dan Bradbury
Top 30 players from final 2025 FedExCup points list
- Harry Hall
- Sungjae Im
- Andrew Novak
- Nick Taylor
PGA Championship winners (5 years)
- Brooks Koepka
First 5 among top 20 players on FEC points list after Travelers Championship (June 28)
- Alex Fitzpatrick
Top player on LIV Golf individual season standings (June 7)
- Joaquin Niemann
Top 5 players on the 2026 Federation Ranking List (May 24)
- Kazuki Higa
- Casey Jarvis
- Kota Kaneko
- Travis Smyth
- Scott Vincent
2025 Senior Open champion
- Padraig Harrington
2025 U.S. Amateur champion
- a-Mason Howell
2025 Asia-Pacific Amateur champion
- a-Fifa Laopakdee
2026 Latin America Amateur champion
- a-Mateo Pulcini
2026 Africa Amateur champion
- a-Jack Buchanan
2026 British Amateur champion
- a-Stuart Grehan
2026 European Amateur champion
- a-Tim Wiedemeyer
2026 Open Amateur Series winner
- a-Lev Grinberg
Open Qualifying Series
- Alistair Docherty (Argentina)
- Jeongwoo Ham (Singapore)
- Lucas Herbert (New Zealand)
- Michael Hollick (Australia)
- Cameron John (Singapore)
- Naoyuki Kataoka (Japan)
- Frederic Lacroix (South Africa)
- Francesco Laporta (South Africa)
- Tom McKibbin (Hong Kong)
- Jiho Yang (South Korea)
- Shaun Norris (Mizuno Open)
- Ryutaro Nagano (Mizuno Open)
- Ren Yonezawa (Mizuno Open)
- J.T. Poston (Memorial)
- Bud Cauley (RBC Canadian Open)
- Jackson Suber (RBC Canadian Open)
- Jesper Svensson (RBC Canadian Open)
- Eugenio Chacarra (Italian Open)
- Johnny Keefer (Scottish Open)
- Michael Thorbjornsen (Scottish Open)
- Victor Perez (Scottish Open)
Final Qualifying
- James Nicholas
- Caleb Surratt
- Austen Truslow
- Tom Sloman
- a-Alejandro de Castro Piera
- Jack McDonald
- Matthew Baldwin
- a-David Howard
- Macus Plunkett
- a-Nevill Ruiter
- Baard Skogen
- MJ Daffue
- Matthew Southgate
- Peter Uihlein
- Antoine Rozner
- Sam Bairstow
- Kazuma Kobori
- Tiger Christensen
- Josele Ballester
- Matthew Jordan
- Aldrich Potgieter
To fill the field from the July 5 world ranking
- Sam Stevens
- Nico Echavarria
- Pierceson Coody
- Ryo Hisatsune
- Michael Brennan
- David Puig
- Tom Kim
- Eric Cole
- Keith Mitchell
- Matt Wallace
- Sami Valimaki
- Max Homa
- Thomas Detry
- Max Greyserman
- Sahith Theegala
Last Chance Qualifier
- Joe Dean